Personalised cancer vaccine expected to be approved next yearFri, 23 Oct 2026 14:42:27 +0000 A bespoke vaccine that is tailored to target an individual's unique skin cancer reduced rates of recurrence or death in a late-stage trial, making an approval expected | |
Brazil presidential election dogged by alleged bias by Meta AI toolsFri, 23 Oct 2026 13:58:34 +0000 Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have accused Meta of interfering in Brazil’s election by making it easier to generate campaign content promoting his rival, Flávio Bolsonaro | |
Body temperature may drive the higher risk of autoimmune conditions in womenFri, 23 Oct 2026 13:50:41 +0000 Autoimmune conditions are much more common in women than men, which could partly be due to the fluctuating body temperatures that occur during the menstrual cycle and menopause | |
Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The science-fiction novelist talks to Alison Flood about her latest book Exit Party, a tale of parallel worlds that is the October read for the New Scientist Book Club | |
Why do mathematicians keep proving things they already know?Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 What exactly is a mathematical proof? Columnist Jacob Aron breaks down how mathematicians plot a course to answer open questions, and how finding several solutions to the same problem is an important part of the whole endeavour of maths | |
Tiny ‘solar flares’ recreated in the lab may explain corona mysteryThu, 22 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000 An experiment has produced nanoflares similar to those seen on the sun, and shown that they can help explain why the outer layers of the solar atmosphere are so hot | |
Earth entered its ‘bad decades’ after dinosaur-ending asteroid strikeThu, 22 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs | |
All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 yearsThu, 22 Oct 2026 13:20:00 +0000 Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal erosion | |
Adults may be more creative than children – but less confident about itThu, 22 Oct 2026 12:16:04 +0000 We often associate children with creativity, but adults actually performed better on inventive tasks, despite being less sure of themselves | |
Global race to update computers as AI discovers most disruptive hack yetThu, 22 Oct 2026 10:17:37 +0000 More than two thirds of the world's websites are vulnerable to a hack that was first theorised in 2024, which AI has now made very real | |